THINKING ABOUT GOD and our Christian beliefs helps us to understand them better and can produce a profound deepening of our faith. Far from diminishing or weakening a believer's commitments, the gift of reason can in act as a strengthening and stabilizing influence upon them. Stanley McQuade in THINKING ABOUT GOD thinks through the major topics and themes of the Christian tradition. Written with the interested lay person in mind this book will be of value to the expert and novice alike due to the range of knowledge and variety of fields the author here applies and engages. It challenges all comers to see thinking about God as a rich and rewarding spiritual discipline. STANLEY McQUADE was born and educated in Northern Ireland and is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church in Ireland. He holds degrees in Law, Philosophy, Theology, and Medicine, and he is a board certified anesthesiologist. He is the current Lynch Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Campbell University School of Law, in Raleigh North Carolina. His first love and continuing interest is theology, especially Biblical theology.